I just found your videos today, quite by accident, and I'm thankful! My daughter and I quilt together and your tutorials are so helpful, especially this one on prepping crumbs to make a crumb quilt!
Thank you so much! (Sorry to be so late in replying--TH-cam has been hiding some comments from me, or I'm incredibly unaware; could be either. In either case, I'm embarrassed about the delay! )
Thanks, Kathy! It would be awhile, I confess! (Sorry to be so late in replying--TH-cam has been hiding some comments from me, or I'm incredibly unaware; could be either. In either case, I'm embarrassed about the delay! And the quilt still isn't made, can you believe it???)
I know this is in the past, but once you cut the white up, tell us what you do with those crumbs. Not too clean , are you cutting each color on the fatquarters?
Hi, Andria! I'm usually not cutting crumbs from fat quarters--this was for those folks who don't have all the scraps that I have (it's a frightening number, to be honest!). I use the scraps for various projects, but the smaller pieces will probably be used for crumb quilts, such as in: th-cam.com/video/qPUrJFg6OXU/w-d-xo.html Hope that helps!
(No snarkiness intended)...Feels a bit of putting the cart (crumbs) before the horse (project). Crumb quilting is for leftovers ( some tasty, some not so much) after a satisfying meal (finished project). Why skip the meal? You want crumbs...make stuff and save your scraps. Chopping up good fabric to make a scrap project makes me want to take a nerve pill and retire to my fainting couch. ( I write this after designing a quilt project from fabric yardage that I have on hand and am determined not to outlive me! My head hurts).
Oh, I don't know--I love it when quilters want to make a quilt, however they come by it. If someone is inspired to make a quilt but doesn't have scraps, why not cut some? Quilters are always cutting fabric, anyway--it's what we do, lol! It's good that we have so many different quilters, with so many different tastes, trying new things and finding their own way and style. Whatever works, and is fun, right?
It has honestly never dawned on me to make crumbs. They kind of just happen organically. I do have to trim down scraps sometimes and have been known to use trims from previous scrap projects as crumbs if they are bigger than 1.5” on each side. Otherwise there’s nothing but seam allowances in the backside and who wants to quilt that?
Of course, as was the case in in my Crumb Quilts video. That you made this comment leads me to believe that you didn't watch the video, so I'll try to summarize what I explain in the video: I made this video in response to viewers who lamented that they wanted to try crumb quilts but hadn't been quilting long enough to have a lot of scraps and crumbs. Rather than discourage them from trying something that interested them, I gave them some options to create some to play with, rather than waiting until they had been quilting for a longer time and so gathered a requisite number of scraps. My purpose, over my 50 years of quiltmaking, designing, and teaching has been to spark as much joy and imagination in quilters as possible, so they believe they are the artists and creatives I know them to be. Most of the time, I admit, that means that I encourage them to try something that tradition might suggest they should wait to do. And so it was with video. Hope that helps.
Your colors are vibrant, yet harmonious. It makes artistic sense and a beautiful quilt. Thanks
Thank you, Warped Spinster. This is exactly what needed to begin preparing a small stash of crumb pieces. I can’t wait to give this a try.
My pleasure, Chris; I'm glad it was helpful. Have fun with crumbs!
I just found your videos today, quite by accident, and I'm thankful! My daughter and I quilt together and your tutorials are so helpful, especially this one on prepping crumbs to make a crumb quilt!
Thank you, Mary! I'm so happy that you and your daughter are finding the videos useful; how fun that the two of you can quilt together! 🥰
Wow, love the many colours.
Thank you so much! (Sorry to be so late in replying--TH-cam has been hiding some comments from me, or I'm incredibly unaware; could be either. In either case, I'm embarrassed about the delay! )
I would love to buy that scrap quilt when your done!!
Thanks, Kathy! It would be awhile, I confess! (Sorry to be so late in replying--TH-cam has been hiding some comments from me, or I'm incredibly unaware; could be either. In either case, I'm embarrassed about the delay! And the quilt still isn't made, can you believe it???)
It's okay!
I know this is in the past, but once you cut the white up, tell us what you do with those crumbs. Not too clean , are you cutting each color on the fatquarters?
Hi, Andria! I'm usually not cutting crumbs from fat quarters--this was for those folks who don't have all the scraps that I have (it's a frightening number, to be honest!). I use the scraps for various projects, but the smaller pieces will probably be used for crumb quilts, such as in:
th-cam.com/video/qPUrJFg6OXU/w-d-xo.html
Hope that helps!
🥰
Thank you, Melisa!
(No snarkiness intended)...Feels a bit of putting the cart (crumbs) before the horse (project). Crumb quilting is for leftovers ( some tasty, some not so much) after a satisfying meal (finished project). Why skip the meal? You want crumbs...make stuff and save your scraps. Chopping up good fabric to make a scrap project makes me want to take a nerve pill and retire to my fainting couch. ( I write this after designing a quilt project from fabric yardage that I have on hand and am determined not to outlive me! My head hurts).
Oh, I don't know--I love it when quilters want to make a quilt, however they come by it. If someone is inspired to make a quilt but doesn't have scraps, why not cut some? Quilters are always cutting fabric, anyway--it's what we do, lol! It's good that we have so many different quilters, with so many different tastes, trying new things and finding their own way and style. Whatever works, and is fun, right?
It has honestly never dawned on me to make crumbs. They kind of just happen organically. I do have to trim down scraps sometimes and have been known to use trims from previous scrap projects as crumbs if they are bigger than 1.5” on each side. Otherwise there’s nothing but seam allowances in the backside and who wants to quilt that?
Many, many crumbs are just leftovers from previous quilts.
Of course, as was the case in in my Crumb Quilts video. That you made this comment leads me to believe that you didn't watch the video, so I'll try to summarize what I explain in the video: I made this video in response to viewers who lamented that they wanted to try crumb quilts but hadn't been quilting long enough to have a lot of scraps and crumbs. Rather than discourage them from trying something that interested them, I gave them some options to create some to play with, rather than waiting until they had been quilting for a longer time and so gathered a requisite number of scraps. My purpose, over my 50 years of quiltmaking, designing, and teaching has been to spark as much joy and imagination in quilters as possible, so they believe they are the artists and creatives I know them to be. Most of the time, I admit, that means that I encourage them to try something that tradition might suggest they should wait to do. And so it was with video.
Hope that helps.